SUMMATIVE

TEST
A market researcher company requested all teachers of a particular school to fill up
a questionnaire in relation to their product market study. The following are some
of the information supplied by the teachers:
• highest educational attainment
• predominant hair color
• body temperature
• civil status
• brand of laundry soap being used
• total household expenditures last month in pesos
• number of children in the household
• number of hours standing in queue while waiting to be served by a bank teller
• amount spent on rice last week by the household
• distance travelled by the teacher in going to school
• time (in hours) consumed on Facebook on a particular day
1. If we are to consider the collection
of information gathered through the
completed questionnaire, what is
the universe for this data set?
2. Which of the variables are QUALITATIVE? Which are
QUANTITATIVE? Among the quantitative variables,
classify them further as DISCRETE or CONTINUOUS.
• highest educational attainment
• predominant hair color
• body temperature
• civil status
• brand of laundry soap being used
• total household expenditures last month in pesos
• number of children in the household
• number of hours standing in queue while waiting to be served by a bank teller
• amount spent on rice last week by the household
• distance travelled by the teacher in going to school
• time (in hours) consumed on Facebook on a particular day
3. Give at least two (2) populations
that could be observed from the
variables identified in (NO. 2).
4. Using the data of the teachers in a particular school gathered
by a market researcher company, identify the level of
measurement for each of the following variable.
• highest educational attainment
• predominant hair color
• body temperature
• civil status
• brand of laundry soap being used
• total household expenditures last month in pesos
• number of children in the household
• number of hours standing in queue while waiting to be served by a bank teller
• amount spent on rice last week by the household
• distance travelled by the teacher in going to school
• time (in hours) consumed on Facebook on a particular day
5. In the following, identify the data
collection method used and the type of
resulting data.
a. The website of Philippine Airlines provides a questionnaire
instrument that can be answered electronically.
b. The latest series of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) generated by the
Philippine Statistics Authority was downloaded from PSA website.
c. A reporter recorded the number of minutes to travel from one end
to another of the Metro Manila Rail Transit (MRT) during peak and
off-peak hours.
d. Students getting the height of the plants using a meter stick.
e. PSA enumerator conducting the Labor Force Survey goes around
the country to interview household head on employment-related
variables.